On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 'Personal use' z/OS has been a recurring theme at SHARE for some time. IBM > is loath to attach words like 'free' or 'personal' to anything in the > mainframe world. What's been made available for individuals is still too > costly for hobby/tinkerer use, especially compare with other platforms. ;-( > ​IMO, FWIW (other acronyms​ omitted) I would love something like z/PDT for a home user. The "problem" that I perceive that IBM has with such a thing can be summed up as "somebody could use that to make money developing software and I won't get a fair cut." IOW, IBM doesn't think that a "personal copy" would only be for learning purposes, but would be "perverted" to actually make money. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-302-7535 Office > [email protected] > > -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
